Med 4 - Opening the Heart & Nurturing Compassion

Learn to Unlock Your Basic Goodness

Nurturing Compassionate Connections

with Meditation and Conversation

Practice experiencing your basic goodness.

This course is for anyone curious about developing self-compassion and the capacity to be open-hearted with others in order to bravely live with compassion in this suffering world. Drawing on both the wisdom of spiritual traditions and contemporary research, you will learn a variety of contemplative practices and skills to train your mind, body and heart to be less reactive and more capable of respond­ing with compassionate thoughts and actions in challenging situ­ations. You will learn through mindfulness and meditation practice that compassion is both self-serving and other-serving. Compassion practitioners experience more resilience, less anxiety, greater clarity of purpose and enriched connections with others and nature. The struggle is real and healing is possible.